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…and I’ve not really played our game! It’s to the wire and I’ve no idea how the game actually plays.

Our pipeline hasn’t been great, which is exacerbated by the timezone difference. We were probably out of scope this time – I feel like maybe my expectations got in the way a little. I’ve been jamming for a couple of years now, and it seems that my polish expectations are getting a little too high. If its content and improves overall quality, I always push to have it in, unaware of the complications of implementation. Not knowing Unity, I am unaware of it’s quirks and don’t have a clear idea of what’s easy or hard when it comes to implementation, so it’s hard to know where to push the polish.

Anyway, we’ll see in an hour or so if we make it. Until then, here’s my final mockup artwork. I even managed to stream some of my pixel art “process”… I might start doing that more often. You can watch future streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/sean_noonan/

As noted earlier, we will take requests and attempt to rescue games with very low ratings. If you want to get your game streamed, I have a form up in the link below, so go right on ahead!http://goo.gl/forms/8IkM8aU5eK

As noted earlier, we here at Tech Valley Game Space are going to play your Ludum Dare games live on Twitch.tv! We’re looking at Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST till midnight, though do note the time is subject to change. Keep this link below bookmarked so you can see us in action!http://www.twitch.tv/techvalleygamespace

Hey, guys. I’d like to go over a few things very quickly. First, we here at Tech Valley Game Space are working on setting up a live stream with a few of our team members to do some let’s plays of Ludum Dare games this week. I’ll be going through some warm-up this Monday evening, and the real one starts Tuesday afternoon. Interested in getting your game streamed? I have a form up in the link below, so go right on ahead!

Second, here’s the massive list of games that stood out for me so far. This Ludum Dare has been excellent, with a lot of diamonds to discover. So without further ado, here’s the list in no particular order.

I’ll be blunt: this game is hardly polished in comparison to most games in this list. And yet…I keep going back to it. Is it due to the horribly explained upgrade system? Is it the bizarre bat physics? Is it the hilarious sound effects? I don’t know!

Yet another narrative game, this time a walking simulator, where you slowly collect clues and unlock the story in a desolate spaceship. The audio logs and bizarre camera effects really shine in this game.

Speaking of music game, this wonderful minigame has a lot of nice layered music to it as you flick and click switches to retain your groove. If this is what being a DJ is like…I might end up liking it.

Yet another super-polished game, this adorable point & click adventure involves a sentient TV trying to get back to the attic. Of course, it also has the same problems most point & click adventures have, too…

Here’s a game that takes the common local multiplayer top-down fighting game and turns it into…a TV show? In this game, you try to please the crowds by spawning opposing fighters and dropping power-ups.

Can you figure out how to play this game? Neither can I, resulting in a hilarious experience about scrambling for the right parts, then dropping them, then picking them up, then putting them into the wrong place, then fumbling again, and on and on and on…

The Tech Valley Game Space presentation on How to survive Ludum Dare starts in an hour (7:00 PM EST) at Twitch.tv. I’ll be presenting my strategy in approaching game jams, includes how to remain healthy during the event, how to come up with game ideas very quickly, and how to scope your game.

A reminder that we’ll be presenting How to survive Ludum Dare on Twitch.tv today, at 7:00 PM EST. I’ll be presenting my strategy in approaching game jams, includes how to remain healthy during the event, how to come up with game ideas very quickly, and how to scope your game. Check it out!

A reminder that we’ll be presenting How to survive Ludum Dare on Twitch.tv tomorrow. I’ll be presenting my strategy in approaching game jams, includes how to remain healthy during the event, how to come up with game ideas very quickly, and how to scope your game. Check it out!

Hello, everyone. We here at Tech Valley Game Space have one more presentation before Ludum Dare rolls in: How to survive Ludum Dare! I’ll be presenting about my strategy on approaching game jams on Twitch.tv on December 4th, 7:00 PM EST. This includes how to remain healthy during the event, how to come up with game ideas very quickly, and how to scope your game. Check it out!

I’d never even opened Construct 2. before the start of this Ludum Dare, but it’s helped me make some really good progress, and I even had a normal night of sleep!

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Next up, I want to make the dragons come out of a portal (instead of just a rectangle that moves around) and I’m going to turn the end-goal into a legitimate tesseract instead of a 2D square.

The game is a standard tower-defense w/a mostly-fantasy theme… but 10 seconds come into play a lot. There is a progress bar under the Tesseract (the point you defend) and every 10 seconds it fills up and grants you more crystals (you’re seeing a fading popup notification of the crystals in this shot). At the same time, there is a yellow progress-bar under the “10” which fills up at the same speed. It isn’t in the screenshot since I took the screenshot right at the end of the interval – so that you could see the crystals!

As mentioned earlier, I’ll be live streaming today on Twitch.tv at 9:30 pm 11:00 pm, Eastern Time. Why the sudden one-and-a-half hour delay? I just found out I had an important meeting to attend to at 8:00 pm, so I had to delay my live-streaming.

Edit: And thanks to Mother’s Day, I have to move it back to 11:00 pm EST

I’ve setup a public Google Docs spreadsheet to list the games I’ll be playing. If you want yours played and rated, you can comment the URL to it below and I’ll add it in, or post it directly on the spreadsheet!